Leadership Challenges, Skills, Risks, and Motivation

Leadership Challenge
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1 Leadership Challenge
My leadership challenge is to enhance interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork among the members of our organization to improve productivity. The organization is made up of members from various disciplines including financial technology (Fintech), accounts, information technology, risk management, and planning. Our department is particularly experiencing a lack of interdisciplinary collaboration, communication, and teamwork which has adversely affected productivity leading to lower profits in the last financial year. My goal as a leader is to improve interdisciplinary collaboration among employees working under my supervision through training and development and application of a strategic servant leadership approach to enhance employee productivity, increase profits and the number of clients in our organization within the next 8 months. Research shows that interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork significantly trustworthiness, dependability, engagement credibility,and productivity among employees (Hazrati et al., 2021).Inter-professional collaboration and teamwork culture are important to me because I believe that collective participation will propel our organization to success.
2 Roadblocks and Challenges
I am likely to face a multitude of challenges and barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration. The challenges and blockades to achieving inter-professional collaboration and teamwork among our employees maybe at an organization or team level. Organizational barriers include financial and regulatory constraints and a lack of resources to train and develop our employees. A lack of appreciation and knowledge about the complementary roles of other professionals may also hinder collaboration among employees. Another barrier to achieving interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork isthe ambiguity in employee and leadership roles in the organization.Our organization does not have role boundaries at present. In some cases,the roles of various professionals overlap due to a lack of clearly defined boundaries. Besides, the organization has a hierarchical administrative structure that discourages interdisciplinary collaboration. Professionals do not have a suitable strategy for the timely exchange of useful information.
I plan to overcome the blockades to inter-professional collaboration in our organization by establishing an effective communication system that allows the timely exchange of information among team members. I encourage the employees to develop trust among each other commit to a common goal of interdisciplinary collaboration.It is also important to establish a positive towards one’s profession and concurrently acknowledge and appreciate the role, knowledge, and skills of other professionals in the team (Ward et al., 2018). I will ensure that all professionals in my team have positive regard for their roles in the organization and appreciate other people to achieve organizational success.I also plan to establish an effective strategy for resolving conflicts and settling disagreements among our team members. I will also encourage professiona...